David Murray spokesman for CTC, the national cycling charity said: “Statistically, you are more likely to come a cropper gardening or exercising on a rowing machine in the gym, than you are riding a bike.

“So whilst these statistics do concern CTC we do need to maintain some perspective on the risks of cycling.

“CTC also encourages positive awareness raising for motorists as well as cyclists about sharing our roads responsibly, which should help to reverse these negative trends in the statistics, as we see in Conwy”.